"I've been in choir for seven years. I started in the third grade and I sing tenor or baritone. Mr. Ritter [the choir director] is really cool, but really serious all the time, so I never know when he's having fun or not. Last year when choir got sweepstakes, I was really happy. We practiced really hard...

"I was sick a lot and out of school a lot my freshman year, but other than that it was pretty good. It affected my GPA pretty bad, because I always missed work. I've been working on getting it up, so I'm in all honors classes except for English. The honors classes are better, but harder. I like the challenge,"...

"I'm interested in becoming an architect. Now that I'm in the [architecture] class, its actually really fun. We just finished building a community school in Africa, and I feel like I did pretty good. Once you get the software down, its pretty easy," Tim Keller, 10.

"My biggest goal is to make my friends happy, probably because I've been so negative in the past and I am tired of it. Everyone around me is negative and I don't like that feeling. I used to let what people thought of me get to me and it changed the way I thought of the people around me," Dakota Kieffer,...